The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 141
‘You shall be obeyed,’ answered the twelve youths at the same moment.
What happens: obey, answer · To what, where: You, twelve youths
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 obeyed | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 obeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 obeyed | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 obeyed | aux:pass |
| 5 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 obeyed | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 youths | det |
| 10 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 youths | nummod |
| 11 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 answered | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 moment | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 moment | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 moment | amod |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | shall · passive | You | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the twelve youths | moment | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent youth=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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